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by **NiksaVel** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:48 am

Hey guys... I'm succesfully using the Terminal Server Client program for VNCing among my computers.. but it seems to lack one VERY important function - the copy/paste between computers doesn't work...

Quite often I need to manually retype lengthy URLs and such..

Is there some simple VNC viewer that will make my life easier?

by **Husse** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:04 am

Hey NiksaVel
I'll play scorp and say: Use google!

http://www.google.se/search?q=vnc+copy+ ... =firefox-a

by **NiksaVel** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:10 pm

not helpful husse.... :evil:

what I've learned is:

You need to run the vncconfig program with no parameters,
then it works...

and I have no idea how to do that....

there's also been mention of freeNX as an alternative to VNC... anyone has any experience with it?

by **scorp123** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:36 pm

NiksaVel wrote:the copy/paste between computers doesn't work...

Mark stuff with the left mouse button and then just click the middle mouse button in the remote window? Works tip top here :wink:

by **scorp123** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:37 pm

NiksaVel wrote:there's also been mention of freeNX as an alternative to VNC... anyone has any experience with it?

Sure

The speed is awesome, but the setup is drastically more complicated ... :wink:

by **NiksaVel** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:55 pm

Mark stuff with the left mouse button and then just click the middle mouse button in the remote window? Works tip top here

it doesn't work here for some reason... I can copy paste this way, but not between my comp and the remote comp... it only does local copy/pasting and same on the remote comp... if I press the middle mouse button in the remote window it will not paste the last thing that I marked on my comp, but the last thing I marked on the remote comp...

I am using the built in ubuntu server (vino, I believe) and the Terminal Server Client for viewer...

by **scorp123** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:44 pm

Hey, you're right ... Linux < > Linux clipboard exchange doesn't work (anymore?).

According to what I read that's a "new feature" of RealVNC 4 and onwards. Now you really need to have that "vncconfig" program running or else this will not work. Now that's silly

by **scorp123** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:06 pm

This seems to be a bug in vino too? Reported first in 2005?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/17606

by **scorp123** on Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:09 pm

Our brethren over at the Ubuntu forums suggest this as solution:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... +clipboard

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